Tool box with a pivotable part

• US 6,988,616 B2
• Filed: 01/22/2004
• Issued: 01/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chang-Ying Chen
• Original Assignee: Chang-Ying Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Chang-Ying
• Primary Examiner(s): LUONG, SHIAN TINH NHAN
• Application Number:
  US10/761,299
• Publication Number:
  US 20050161356A1
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: 206/349, 206/372, 206/373, 206/376, 206/377, 206/379, 206/759, 206/763, 206/765, 211/70.6, 211/69
• US Class Current: 206/379
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/003 Holders for drill bits or the like

Abstract

A tool box includes a base having two first holes in two sides thereof, a pivotable part received in the base and having two arms on two sides thereof and each arm having a second hole, and a cover having two lugs located between the two sides and the two arms. Each first hole has a first notch and each second hole has a second notch defined in an inner periphery thereof. Each lug has a third hole and a protrusion extends from in an inner periphery of each lug. Two shafts extend through the first holes, the third holes and the second holes. Each shaft includes a ridge on an out side thereof and the ridges extend through the first notches and the second notches. The ridges is sized to be engaged with the second notches and can be pushed by the protrusions when the cover is pivoted from a close position to an open position.

Claims

1. A tool box comprising:

a base having two first holes defined in two sides thereof and each first hole having a first notch defined in an inner periphery thereof;

a pivotable part having two arms on two sides thereof and each arm having a second hole, each second hole having a second notch defined in an inner periphery thereof, a plurality of recesses defined therein, the pivotable part received in a space defined in the base and the two arms located between the two sides of the base;

a cover having two lugs and each lug having a third hole, each third hole having a protrusion extending from in an inner periphery thereof, the two lugs being located between the two arms of the pivotable part and the two sides of the base, the third holes being located in alignment with the first holes and the second holes, and

two shafts each having a ridge longitudinally on an out side thereof, the two shafts extending through the first holes, the third holes and the second holes, the ridges extending through the first notches and the second notches, the ridges being sized to be engaged with the second notches and being pushed by the protrusions when the cover is pivoted from a close position to an open position.

2. The tool box as claimed in claim 1, wherein the two shafts each have an enlarged end which is split into two parts by a slit, the two parts engaged with the two respective insides of the two arms of the pivotable part.

3. The tool box as claimed in claim 2, wherein the ridge of each shaft extends from the enlarged end.

4. The tool box as claimed in claim 1, wherein a tubular recess is defined in a side of the pivotable part and a section of the tubular recess opens to a surface of the pivotable part.